‘A gallop through history’
AS torrential rain refused to relent during the pageant at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in 2002 to mark The Queen’s Golden Jubilee, Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex were blissfully unaware that the canopy over the royal box was filling with water.
“It was like a swimming pool – and it was just about to crash down on them,” recounts show director Simon Brooks-Ward, still horrified at the prospect 20 years on, as he prepares to share his Platinum Jubilee celebration with the world this month. “The only thing we could do was get the disgusting-smelling poo sucker to suck it all out – all while the show was going on – which was brilliant apart from then it started trying to suck up the canopy. It was a
